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Example sentences for "holding"

Lexicographically close words:
holdes; holdest; holdeth; holdfasts; holdin; holdings; holds; holdst; holdup; holdups
  1. The one is generously holding out the Arm of Protection to a People most cruelly oppressd while the other is practicing the Arts of Treachery and Deceit to subjugate and enslave them.

  2. If there is a total Silence in the Constitution, is it not natural to conclude that an Officer holding during Pleasure is removable by the same Power which appointed him, whether vested in a single Person, or a joint Number?

  3. And will it not then be somewhat difficult for Mediator to find Arguments against her holding it?

  4. He condemned the French for holding a separate council, and reprobated the discussion of topics of such importance as those now under consideration in the presence of women, and of men trained to war.

  5. Nor was the courage of the Huguenots less clearly manifested a little later in the elections preparatory to the holding of the States General.

  6. In particular, he sent Don Antonio de Toledo to dissuade the French government from holding a national council in Paris for the reformation of religion, as he understood it was proposed to do during the coming winter.

  7. Footnote 1051: The cathedral alone persisted in holding out a day or two longer, and then made an unwilling sacrifice of its pictures, protesting at the same time that it only wanted peace and friendship.

  8. Look for yourself," said he, holding the parchment close to my face.

  9. Something compelled me to stop and await the arrival of the fugitive, and, holding the pony's bridle by one hand, I assisted Constance to dismount.

  10. Captain Jeremy was already up and about, and was holding the chart in his hand, for we were on the point of passing over shoal water, though no rocks reared their heads above the sea.

  11. As we left Lyndhurst town on our return journey, I leading a shaggy Forest pony on which my sister, holding the required purchase, was perched, a troop of horse came riding with loose rein and hot spur through the quiet High Street.

  12. I exclaimed, holding it up to my father's view.

  13. Not for one moment did I expect to be in danger, for Miles was riding strongly and evidently holding his own, while 'twas unlikely that the troopers, keen on his pursuit, would draw rein to molest a boy and a girl.

  14. The child does not say to them, as to the people in pictures, the splendid people in strange colours, and holding strange things, "Who are you?

  15. Rushing Hen to the nearest tree, they promptly and soundly spanked him by the very simple method of holding his legs apart and swinging his body smartly against the tree-trunk.

  16. In the same instant two boys rose suddenly, holding on, and the bully toppled over backward.

  17. Len placed the whistle between his lips and was about to blow it when Dave Darrin darted forward, holding up one hand.

  18. Greg Holmes was somewhere down near the bottom of that mix-up, holding on to the ball for all he was worth.

  19. Then a man was on top of me, holding my nose ground into the dirt.

  20. Dick, holding the light, was piloting Greg through the tunnel.

  21. Nor had the Grammar School crowd been strolling along more than two minutes when Dick suddenly halted them by holding up one hand.

  22. A few moments later Dick and Dave scurried to cover, snuggling down among a lot of Grammar School boys who were holding their handkerchiefs wedged in their mouths.

  23. Dick had already thrown himself on his knees, and, holding the lamp ahead of him, he crawled in as fast as he could over the rough, rocky floor of the tunnel.

  24. When the tangle had been straightened out Greg Holmes was found to be still doubled up, holding doggedly to the pigskin that had been his to guard.

  25. Oliver; impatient to execute his commission, and holding out his trembling hand for the letter.

  26. He would come back--I knew he would,' said the old lady, holding him in her arms.

  27. I couldn't have believed it, sir' said Mrs Mann, holding up her hands, and looking malignantly at Dick.

  28. You were not suspected of holding any communication with anybody on the subject which has brought us here to-night, I hope?

  29. Running on thus, and now holding Oliver from her to mark how he had grown, now clasping him to her and passing her fingers fondly through his hair, the good soul laughed and wept upon his neck by turns.

  30. Steady,' said the turnkey, still holding him down.

  31. The lady modestly hesitated to reply, lest there should be any impropriety in holding an interview with Mr. Bumble, with closed doors.

  32. A bank founded on the revenue and credit of the government, and managed and administered by the executive, was a conception which I had supposed no man holding the chief executive power in his own hands would venture to put forth.

  33. In the canvass of 1824, it was the main effort of the friends of all the candidates, by holding out the prospect of a liberal basis of administration, to draw to themselves as many as possible of the old Federal party.

  34. You know yourself what an easy-going young fella he's always been, never holding a grudge, always ready to let bygones be bygones.

  35. Ulenspiegel, continuing his drunken feigning, went climbing staggering up the stairs, pretending to be about to fall and holding on by the rope.

  36. The bailiff asked Soetkin if she was not holding back goods that belonged to the Emperor.

  37. Upon a bank on the roadside there sat, between two clumps of thistles, a big man holding in one hand a knuckle bone of mutton, which he was gnawing, and in the other a flask whose juice he was draining.

  38. Ulenspiegel was standing holding in his hand the great pewter pot, which held the exact measure.

  39. When she came back thence with empty hands, she was astonished to see Claes coming back to their house, triumphant and lordly, upon the horse of the man in black, who was going afoot beside him and holding the rein.

  40. Claes was proudly holding in one hand against his thigh a leathern wallet that seemed well stuffed.

  41. His Sacred Majesty enacted among other penalties that suspected persons should ever after be incapable of holding honourable estate.

  42. Still holding the supreme power, the Church alone could bring the peace for which the country longed.

  43. He has also something to say about holding "the hand sideways, so that the back of the hand and arm form an angle.

  44. De Lenz says they parted coolly, each holding to his opinion.

  45. All right," panted poor Sam, and made his way back to the wheelhouse step by step, and holding on to whatever was handy, to keep from being swept overboard.

  46. Hello, here is a pretty big suit," observed Sam, hauling it forth and holding it up.

  47. No more was said by either, but holding fast to whatever came to hand, the two Rovers worked their way forward until they reached the rail where Dick had been standing.

  48. He struggles up to his feet, holding on with his lean hands, he looks up to the cross with rolling eyes.

  49. Jesus sat on the animal, both feet on the one side, holding the reins with His right hand.

  50. Holding his head with both hands, he fled, without knowing why he fled, for he would rather have fallen on his knees before the wondrous child.

  51. When Jesus spread out His arms, they went to Him, and were soon at home, holding up their little red mouths, in which He put fruit from the table.

  52. A troop of servants accompanied him, and by his side rode Moors on African camels, holding a canopy over him to protect him from the sun, and fanning him into coolness with flowery fans.

  53. If you've bread with you, give it us," said Dismas, who was holding the ass.

  54. For a moment they were both very still, he watching and feeling his sense pervaded by the glowing sensation that all was right with the world, she holding her face averted and keeping her thoughts to herself.

  55. She had stepped quite close to him, holding out the cloak, her eyes lifted defiantly to his.

  56. But Steve Packard caught his old friend about the body, holding him back a moment.

  57. In the long room half-a-dozen idle men looked up at him with mild interest, withdrawing their eyes briefly from solitaire or newspaper or cribbage game or whatever had been holding their careless attention as he entered.

  58. That's one reason you've got the job you're holding down right now.

  59. He was a stoutly-built sea-faring man, dressed in a pea jacket and blue trousers and holding his tarpaulin hat in his hand.

  60. She will niver spake again, whoever she may have been," the major said, holding the lantern to her cold pale face.

  61. Dere vill be no holding him at all when he has heard of it.

  62. Me dear sir," answered the major, holding up his hand deprecatingly, "you put me in the painful position of having to explain meself in plain words.

  63. Miss Vernon, holding up her finger; "I told you I would not bear the shadow of a compliment.

  64. Rashleigh, holding a candle towards me, and surveying me from head to foot; "right welcome to Osbaldistone Hall!

  65. I was left awkwardly enough stationed in the centre of the court of the old hall, mounted on one horse, and holding another in my hand.

  66. General d'Erlon was holding a review of the National Guard and of the troops of the line in which he was obliged to take part.

  67. He is alone, seated at a table, holding in his hand the handkerchief which he has taken from Madame Laferrier.

  68. Each one of us had already great difficulty in holding himself up.

  69. Ethelwood is on his knees holding the king's stirrup.

  70. Madame went to church on foot, on her host's arm, passing through the crowd boldly, holding her head high.

  71. Berryer found a farm lad at the door already mounted, and holding a horse by the hand; scarcely had he put his foot into the stirrups before his new conductor started as silently as his predecessor had done.

  72. There was a way out of the attic through a narrow dormer-window, and a man sat astride the roof, holding a strong arm to those who wished to cross to the other side and who were not afraid of attempting that aerial route.

  73. This defrayed the expenses of the Shrove Tuesday of 1826; but then, after holding out as long as possible, he had to take the step of going away into the country.

  74. Sullers kept beside him, holding up both ends of a political conversation and trying to pretend not to notice the speed.

  75. When the originals of these stone trees died, their trunks, either standing or fallen, soaked up soil water holding mineral matter in solution.

  76. This he first ties in a variety of apparently impossible knots, and then holding him at a little distance from his face, allows the snake to strike at it, just dodging back each time sufficiently far to avoid the blow.

  77. LENNY, half crying, and holding out the sixpence.

  78. My mother having just adorned a very small frock with a very smart braid, is holding it out at arm's length, the more to admire the effect.

  79. While holding this by the tail, Mohammed buffets him on the head with his open hand, and the serpent, quite furious, frequently seizes him by the forearm.

  80. The minister there meets it, holding his white handkerchief most closely to his nose: the mourners imitate him, sick and sorrowful.

  81. Some means of holding it in check we have already dwelt upon.

  82. After doing this some time I throw him straight on the ground, still holding him by the tail; I allow him to raise his head and try to bite, for some time, in order that he may learn how to attack, still keeping him off with the stick.

  83. Gentlemen, let us drink to the hero of the Fels Insel," said he, holding up his glass for the servant to fill it.

  84. The nozzle of an oxy-hydrogen jet has an interior pipe connected with the cylinder holding one gas, and an exterior, and somewhat larger, pipe leading from that containing the other, the two being arranged concentrically at the nozzle.

  85. A well-known type of alternator is the magneto machine which sends shocks through any one who completes the external circuit by holding the brass handles connected by wires to the brushes.

  86. Pneumatic chipping tools merely require holding to their work, their weight offering sufficient resistance to the very rapid blows which they make.

  87. The piston is composed of two circular plates of smaller diameter than the barrel, holding between them a cup leather.

  88. All poetry is communal, holding fast to the rhythm of consent as to the one sure fact.

  89. Five yards along to the left, a group of Germans were holding up the advancing British.

  90. Holding out with twenty men in trench running north from Derelict Wood.

  91. She had already put on her own hat and coat and was holding Marjorie's for her, when her friend arrived.

  92. Marjorie waited apprehensively, wondering if Ellen were holding her own.

  93. The vanquished team had already betaken themselves to their quarters, but the sophomore players were holding an impromptu reception on the ground they had so hotly contested.

  94. Her father looked lovingly at the pretty, earnest face of his daughter as she stood holding up the filmy gown, her eyes bright with unselfish purpose.

  95. As she moved the doll across the back of the motion picture screen, holding it by the long strip of cardboard, one could only see the figure move across the little room.

  96. Jimsi hadn’t seen Joyce but now she looked toward the window and saw a wheel-chair with a beautiful dark-haired girl of twelve propped up in it and holding out a welcoming hand.

  97. But Cicero, had he defended Catiline, would not have done so as holding out his hand to democracy.

  98. This they gave by holding themselves in readiness for whatever violence was needed from them, till it became notorious in Rome that a great party man might best attain his political object by fighting for it in the streets.

  99. Even had they held their tongues about this, everybody would have known it; but they had been far from holding their tongues.

  100. In June of the same year he was made lord chancellor, holding office until compelled by a paralytic stroke to resign in 1733.

  101. But they are not fanatics, though holding the abstract doctrine that the "Kafir" may be lawfully oppressed, including in this category not only Buddhists and Christians, but even Mahommedans of the Shiah sect.

  102. There was the same political rivalry between the slave-holding farmers of the Blue Grass Region and the "poor whites" of the mountain districts that there was in Virginia between the tide-water planters and the mountaineers.


  103. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "holding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    absorbing; attractive; bearing; benefit; block; bracing; burdened; carrying; claim; clinging; colony; common; compelling; compulsive; consuming; driving; easement; enchanting; endowed; engaging; engrossing; enthralling; equity; estate; farm; fascinating; feud; freehold; grasping; gripping; hold; holding; holdings; hypnotic; impelling; inhibition; interest; keeping; landed; landholding; lease; leasehold; limitation; lot; magnetic; maintenance; mandate; mesmeric; obsessive; occupancy; occupation; part; percentage; piece; possession; prehension; preoccupation; prepossession; prescription; preservation; propertied; property; repression; right; settlement; share; spread; squatting; stake; supporting; supportive; suppression; sustaining; tenacious; tenacity; tenancy; tenure; title; trust; use; villenage; worth


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    holding fast; holding her; holding the; holding them